96. How to speak with joy with Sarah Maddack

Want to approach speaking with excitement and gratitude instead of fear and resistance? Then listen in. TikTok's silly rapper Sarah Maddack shares her attitude towards speaking, along with a fun practical technique to snap yourself out of a bad mood!

Transcript

Hello hello, it’s so great to have you here today, I’m feeling so joyful and grateful, partly because of our all stars guest today….the fabulous Sarah Maddack who I chatted to back in episode 54.

I’m also feeling so joyful because as you may have seen DOORS ARE NOW OPEN for my brand new course SPEAK FROM YOUR SOUL.

If you feel like you don’t confidently speak up when you want to, or you do but it sound weird or forced or not like you, or you go to public speak and feel totally disconnected from what’s going on and you’re freaking out, the words don’t come out right and it’s just easier to say no when any speaking opportunity comes up?

Or maybe you feel pretty confident speaking but want to learn more about your voice, you might want a new way of approaching things, new strategies to take your speaking to the next level?

If this sounds anything like you, then join Speak from your Soul.

It’s a six week spiritual journey which kicks off on November 7th, so doors close on Saturday November 6th.

The link to more info is in the show notes and I would love to help you find your real, authentic voice and feel the joy of having a free flowing line of communication between your physical, emotional and spiritual self.

Now one of the things we do in the course – in week five I believe, is we embrace jibberish. So we can connect our the meaning of the words

And speaking of feeling the joy, I had to revisit my chat with Sarah Maddack, who I met through TikTok – she went viral after rapping about a slug on the rug -it’s so cute.

In this snippet Sarah touches on two things, which are actually IN the Speak from your Soul course, the first Is about approaching speaking from a position of love – our final week is all about gratitude and loving our voice, so this is beautiful, and then Sarah also talks about jibberish, which we do in week five as a great fun and funny way to connect our voice to our emotions. And this is a good reminder to forget the BUMMERSLUDGE and get a SWITCH UP SERUM. This will make more sense soon.

ANNNNND Sarah recently got engaged to her partner Nathan, so a big congratulations are in order.

Let’s dive back to episode 54 where Sarah shares a great reframe when it comes to speaking and that is …

Sarah: It's not about you. It's about what you're giving it's about how can I share this the most effectively? And when you make it all about how other people are going to receive it and the value they're going to get from it, that makes the butterflies go away. When you just think about the position of love, you know what I mean? That sounds really hippie-ish, but like just loving on people with your voice and with your message, like that just takes the pressure off you then it's not about you at all.

Sally: Yeah, absolutely. And if you want to go a bit harsh on it, sometimes I say irresponsible, it's irresponsible to sit there and not get out there and share what you, what you know, and what you love.

Sarah: Right.

Sally: And so now what's next? You've got the book and by the way, I'm so grateful to be able to contribute to the book. For those listening. I have a little TikTok about gibberish and I do like talking in gibberish, especially to my nieces - they just love it. Kids love speaking in gibberish. If you want to be the most popular auntie at Christmas, just go up to one of the kids and be like, and honestly you'll be the most popular one because kids love gibberish. And I think it's a fantastic way to, well, I'd be interested to see what your take on it in the book is, but it's a great way to break through self doubt and be free.

Sarah: A hundred percent actually, the way I used it in the book I talk about what I call a bummer sludge. So one way that people end up taking themselves or their circumstances, so seriously is just the inconveniences of daily life. Oh, I woke up late now. Oh, I spilled coffee on myself. Oh, such and such. Didn't go my way and what I call bummer sludge is where it's this really sneaky thing that doesn't like ruin or make your day like super terrible, but it just makes everything in your day just okay. And not super great. Like it mutes your whole day, just kind of lingers, you know? So anyway, I talk about, well, you need a switch-up serum and that's how you like, get it off you. And like, you know, quite literally brush off something inconvenient or some problem that happened. And, and one of those ways is just changing, like your physiology or using your voice. Like, let's say you're frustrated cause whatever your car ended up costing a thousand dollars to fix. I am not even kidding you. I will actually to get myself out of like this state of like persnickety I'm in a bad mood. I will speak gibberish or I'll talk to myself out loud or I'll sing, I'll rap. I'll do something to just remind myself that I'm going to die one day. And this is only a speck in my life. This isn't this giant overbearing thing. And it snaps me out of it.

Haha so much fun, so much joy and if you want to get a bit of that joyful, grateful attitude and energy into your daily life and especially into the way you communicate, your voice and speaking, then come and join Speak from your Soul – doors close Saturday November 6th, and don’t hesitate to reach out if you have questions about the course at all. Thanks for listening I hope your day is full of love and joy and jibberish!

Sally Prosser